Improving cancer control

1. Improving cancer control Cancer Control Joint Action FirstnameLastname | City | 13.6.2016

2. Joint know-how on cancer control Cancon is a joint action initiative, co-funded by participating institutes, organisations, universities and health care units, and the European Union. • started in 2014 and continues until 2017; • 126 partners and 25 countries (of which 23 are member states) involved in Cancon; • helps member states to place cancer firmly on their national public health agendas; and • is producing a Guide for improving the quality of comprehensive cancer control. Hundreds of cancer experts are working on this.

3. Patient-centredGuide The main objective of Cancon is the European Guide on Quality Improvement in Comprehensive Cancer Control The Guide is meant for • governments, • parlamentarians, • health care providers and funders, and • cancer care professionals at every level. The Guide will be a coherent, patient-centred document, and key strategic tool for governments and policy makers. Cancon will improve national situations by applying and adapting recommendations in the Guide.

4. Cancon hasnineworkpackages Work packages 1, 2 and 3 deal with coordination (leader: Slovenia), dissemination (Finland) and evaluation (Romania). They help to facilitate six work packages which focus on developing the content of cancer control. The six core work packages: • 4 Guide coordination(Belgium) • 5 Memberstateplatform(Italy) • 6 Integrated cancer control (Italy) • 7 Community-level cancer care(Slovenia) • 8 Survivorship and rehabilitation (France) • 9 Screening(Finland)

5. Fivepolicypapers position cancer control into planningprocesses The fivetopics and theirleadersare: • A publichealthgenomicsapproach in oncology, Marc Van den Bulcke, • Common objectives of national cancer plans (NCPs), Tit Albreht , • Re-allocation of resources to moreeffectiveperformance, Roberto Giuseppe Grilli, • Outcome of prevention, Giuseppe La Torre, and • Inequalities in cancer control, Rosana Peiró.

6. Cancon willhelp decrease cancer mortality by • Improving the quality of cancer care among member states; • Improving the quality of life of cancer patients and survivors with proposals on survivorship; • Ensuring reintegration and palliative care and a decrease in inequalities at various levels of the cancer control field. Increasingly, cancer patients are overcoming their disease. There is a shift from "how long" people live after diagnosis to "how well". We need to know how well they are coping.

7. The finalfullyear of Cancon • Overall status is good, Cancon is on its tracks to achieve all set objectives by the end of the joint action • WP leaders and associated partners generally satisfied with the progress of the joint action • Positive atmosphere characterises the partnerships within Cancon • Work packages are busy; e.g. WP 9 Screening has had several meetings discussing guidance for colorectal and breast cancer • eGuide will be ready by Christmas 2016, printed version ready in February 2017 • The final conference at Malta in Feb 2017

9. Find out moreabout Cancon • On our webpages at cancercontrol.eu • Subscribe the newsletter at cancercontrol.eu/news-events/newsletters/ • We are also active on • Facebook; • LinkedIn; • Twitter and Instagram(@EU_Cancon, #EU_CanCon)

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